Town Manager's Report
January 2006

Prepared by David Haller

Streets:

• Staff took down Christmas decorations
• Staff repaired a number of street lights
• Staff installed a number of street signs

Water:

• Staff is having difficulties operating the water treatment plant, those difficulties are related to the treatment of the lake water and the limited detention time the chemicals have to act
• The roughing filters are being backwashed everyday
• Staff has performed some repairs to the Well #3 access road
• Water production and consumption.  We produced and purchased an average of 327,807 gpd.  We consumed an average of 308,160 gpd.
  • The difference is "Backwash Water" ...(6%).   We purchased 623,000 gals. of water from MSM this month.
  • 49.0% of this water came from wells 
  •  6.1% of this water came from Mt. St. Mary's
  • 44.9% of this water came from Rainbow Lake 

Wastewater:

• We had two raw sewerage spills in the Month of January
• Jan. 2 & 3 - 23,500 gals.,   Jan 18 - 10,800 gals.
• We received about 4.9 inches of precipitation this month
• Wastewater Treatment:
  • We treat an average of 680,000 gpd (consumed 308,160 gpd) which means that 55% of the wastewater treated this month was "wild water"
  • We exceeded  the plant's design capacity on 5 days in the month of January
  • 01/02-1,041,000 gals., 01/03-1,282,000 gals.
  • 01/18-2,092,000 gals., 01/19-840,000 gals., 01/23-897,000 gals.

Trash:

• Trash pickup days will remain Monday & Thursday for the month of February

Parks:

• Staff has been preparing equipment for the Spring
• Staff discovered graffiti (vandalism) all over the Community Park pavilion (floor, roof, grills & picnic tables)

Meetings Attended:

• 01/18 To discuss improvements to the Jubilee Foods site
• 01/26 To review and discuss the completion of the Southgate Development's site improvements
• 01/27 To review the number of taps required for the rehab of the Fire Company's Building
• 02/02  To discuss ball field maintenance with the Little League
• 02/07 & 02/08  To discuss Planner Consultant Services

List of prior months' Town Manager's reports